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Muller, Eve – Project Forum, 2009
Based on a survey of states, this document summarizes state-level approaches to using surrogate parents in order to meet the needs of children with disabilities. Most respondents noted that their states had issued policy or formal guidance pertaining to surrogate parents and children with disabilities, and most also described efforts to ensure…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Parents, Adoption, Foster Care
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DeCataldo, Kathleen R.; Carroll, Karen – Child Welfare, 2007
In November 2002, Chief Judge Judith Kaye attended the National Adoption Day festivities in Albany County and New York County (Manhattan). Although pleased that 600 adoptions were being finalized statewide on this special day, she was concerned to learn more than 6,000 other children were free for adoption but had not yet found permanent families.…
Descriptors: Counties, Child Welfare, Courts, Adoption